Quotes about Consequences

If I went in debt a million dollars every time I committed genocide, I'd be our economy.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

It made him feel a little uncomfortable sometimes when he reflected that the good little boys always died. He loved to live, you know, and this was the most unpleasant feature about being a Sunday-school-book boy. He knew it was not healthy to be good.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.

It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends.

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness.

It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Nature is unfathomable because we seek after causes and consequences in a realm where this form is not to be found. We try to reach the inner being of nature, which looks out at us from every phenomenon, under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason - whereas this is merely the form under which our intellect comprehends appearance, i.e. the surface of things, while we want to employ it beyond the bounds of appearance; for within these bounds it is serviceable and sufficient.

We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.